Know she’s an abusive partner – Women can be abusive too. There’s a common and deeply pervasive misconception floating around that men can’t be emotionally abused in relationships. There’s this perception that men are decisive, unemotional, headstrong, and don’t bend to others’ wills. So how could they possibly be emotionally manipulated if they don’t really have emotions to manipulate?
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In reality, nothing could be further from the truth.
Men and women can be abused and taken advantage of emotionally, physically, sexually, and psychologically.
My experience with an emotional psychopath:
I dated an emotionally manipulative woman for two years.
When I told her that I wanted to break up, she said that it was because of my emotional blocks to intimacy. She said that I was afraid. She said that I was a commitment-phobe. She told me that I was being too emotional. She even went so far as suggesting that I had bi-polar disorder and sent me a laundry list of symptoms that I supposedly had that clearly meant that I had bi-polar. And while I recognize that bi-polar disorder is a real thing that many people live with (i.e. she didn’t just invent a disease to make me feel unstable), my family doctor assured me that I did not have anything resembling bi-polar disorder.
While I am a sensitive person and am highly in touch with my emotions, the fact that I embrace my sensitivity did not mean I had something wrong with me. This was just a tactic to slyly get me to doubt my own sanity and decision making ability. And it worked. For close to a year.
As time went on in our relationship, I felt increasingly unlike myself. And I was miserable. I even started having my first series of panic attacks as my body revolted against how unhappy I felt. My body was saying no when my mouth didn’t feel able to.
It took me a long time to come to terms with how unhealthy the relationship was, and it is my hope that in sharing my experiences someone reading this may be able to recognize the symptoms much sooner than I did.
How do you know you’re dating an emotionally manipulative woman?
Some of the clearest indicators that you’re in a relationship with an emotionally manipulative woman are that you always feel like you’re in the wrong, you feel like you need to walk on eggshells around them, and you live in a constant state of fear and anxiety.
But let’s dive into some specifics.
See how many of the following five things resonate with you:
1. It feels like everything is your fault
If you constantly feel like everything is your fault then you’re likely in an abusive relationship.
We usually get to this place in our relationship because we have been constantly criticized by our partners and we feel like we can’t do anything correctly.
It’s also difficult for emotionally abusive people to take any sense of responsibly for their actions (so whenever something goes wrong, you’re the one who has to take the fall for it).
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